County withdraws search warrant used to search house of Gizmodo editor

In a dispute over the iPhone prototype, law enforcement has withdrawn a search warrant and Gizmodo has agreed to provide specific information over how they obtained the prototype without Apple’s permission. -db County withdraws search warrant used to search house of Gizmodo editor http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11495 Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press July 22, 2010 By [...]

iPhone caper: First Amendment lawyers question warrant on Gizmodo editor

First Amendment lawyers say that police should have never acceded to Apple’s pressure to search a Gizmodo.com editor’s house for evidence related to an alleged theft of an iPhone 4G prototype. They say the affadavit requesting the search did not disclose that the editor was a journalist nor mention the Federal Privacy Protection Act or [...]

Digital rights foundation claims warrant in Gizmodo case violated California law

According to the Electronic Freedom Foundationn, an examination of the search warrant affidavit that sanctioned the invasion of an Gizmodo’s house last month shows that the warrant should never have been issued in that California law does not allow for suspending a reporter’s testimonial privilege unless another constitutional right is in play. Click on the [...]

Prosecutors claim disclosure in Gizmodo/iPhone case would compromise informants’ identity

Prosecutors investigating Gizmodo’s acquiring a prototype iPhone say  that to protect the identity of informants it was necessary to deny news outlets access to the search warrant affidavit that led to confiscation of an editor’s computers in his home. -db Wired May 10, 2010 By David Kravets California prosecutors investigating Gizmodo’s purchase of a prototype [...]

Judge defers on media request to unseal search warrant affidavit in flap over iPhone

A San Mateo County judge declined to decide a request by news organizations to unseal a search warrant affidavit to learn the justification for a police search of a Gizmodo eitor’s home for records about how he obtained an iPhone prototype. Judge indicates case should be heard by judge who OK’s warrant-db CNET News May [...]

AP, Bloomberg, CNET, Wired.com, LA Times, CNPA join FAC motion in lost-iPhone case

FAC–The First Amendment Coalition and major news media have requested the California Court presiding over the Gizmodo/missing iPhone matter to unseal judicial records relating to the warrant issued for the search of an online journalist’s home and the seizure of his computer, hard drives and other digital files. The motion to unseal the warrant affidavit [...]

Electronic Frontier Foundation says Gizmodo editor protected by California law and First Amendment

The Civil Liberties Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation says regardless of suspicions that Gizmodo editor Jason Chen was in possession of a stolen iPhone, under the California shield law and the federal Privacy Protection Act, the police search of his home and seizure of his computers was illegal. -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Legal Analysis [...]

Police action in invading editor’s house in Gizmodo iPhone case said in conflict with California law

A director at the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard says that in seizing a Gizmodo editor’s computers, the police most likely violated the state’s shield law.-db Citizen Media Law Project Commentary April 26, 2010 By Sam Bayard Gizmodo announced this afternoon that California police seized computers and servers from the home of its reporter/editor [...]

Gawker lawyers try to invoke shield law in police seizure of computers at editor’s house

The furor continues over tech blog Gizmodo’s acquisition of a next-generation iPhone which it bought from someone who found it in a bar in Redwood City. To find out how Gizmodo got the iPhone, police seized the computers of an editor for Gawker, Gizmodo’s parent company. Gawker hired a First Amendment lawyer to fight the [...]